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Topic: Expanding---A Lotta More Bee Hives (Read 6146 times)

Well folks my life will be changing this year. Looks like I will be greatly expanding my apiary. That means more bee hives, lots more!

I recently acquired two new beeyards and will possibly gain access to another.

That would bring me up to 5 beeyards and my little incubation site at the house.

One of the new sites is approximately 40 acres.

Why am I doing this? How will my life change?

Thinking of providing survivor stock bees for sale, packages and queens. Alan Bukley says he will help me with the particulars and most likely he and I and Bailey, my buddy in Raceland can all help each other out.

I will still be doing cut outs and chasing after swarms but if everything works out I will be able to be more selective in those I choose to do.

Anyway, wish me luck please. The most I've ever run personally was 55, at 40 now but may be at 100 or even more by the end of this season if things go right.

I wish you the best of luck JP! Lord knows you've got your work cut out for you. Holler at me if I can assist in any way!

Scott

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Well I know where I need to move if I need a Beek job.. 80) I just wish my wife and kids could handle the heat..I was raised up in SC and personally don't mind dodging the occasional june bug at dusk. Oh well I will live on vicariously through JP.

Hey JP do you think it would be wise to possibly cut a hole in the front of this tree to extract the hive. I am trying to help out Crcurrie with saving this hive but he lives in DC and this is vacation property. Right now we are waiting 2 weeks or so for a possible swarm so he can have other bees on his property somewhere and then I (maybe) will do this cutout. The hive is just below the crook in the tree..

Well I know where I need to move if I need a Beek job.. 80) I just wish my wife and kids could handle the heat..I was raised up in SC and personally don't mind dodging the occasional june bug at dusk. Oh well I will live on vicariously through JP.

Hey JP do you think it would be wise to possibly cut a hole in the front of this tree to extract the hive. I am trying to help out Crcurrie with saving this hive but he lives in DC and this is vacation property. Right now we are waiting 2 weeks or so for a possible swarm so he can have other bees on his property somewhere and then I (maybe) will do this cutout. The hive is just below the crook in the tree..

First off, thanks for all the encouragement folks.

CVBees, as you can see the picture didn't come out. If its a tree that won't be coming down, no sense in cutting into it. Catch swarms from it.

JP, I am just up the raod from you. I went from 2 hives 3 years ago to 97 now. Lots of swarms, cut outs, splits and graftiing. Not that I think I know anything you dont, any time I can help and or relate some of the many mistakes I have encountered to you to keep you from making the same feel free to let me know. I am down in your area occasionally working and would be happy to help.

Mike

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That's good to know. I can send you your first customer. She answered my bee removal ad on Craigslist, not because she needed bees removed, but so that I could bring her the bees. After all, she attended a seminar last fall and she's ready to be a beekeeper. Since she thinks I have all the bees I need, I should supply her, free of charge, of course. Some people are just so amazing.... I gave her a few references as to where she could order bees. Surprisingly, I haven't heard back from her, HMMMM. :-\